mobile web development tips

Question

I'm starting on creating a mobile version of one of our companies many web applications. We have a combination of mostly WebForms .NET and classic ASP sites.

I've looked around a bit and the JQueryMobile framework looks great for user 'mobile-izing' UI elements and transitions but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work well with WebForms development. Converting our existing sites to MVC isn't really an option. I guess one option would be to create the mobile versions using MVC but nobody in our company uses that technology so I hesitate to go down that road.

Are there any other software 'shortcuts' similar to JQueryMobile that might play a little nicer with WinForms development?

Sorry if this is a basic question but I'm starting from square one regarding the mobile web.

Answer 1

Most mobile web application is essentially a simplified version of what you have currently. You should be able to use ASP.NET Web Forms for mobile. For code cleanliness, you may want to create a different ASPX file separate from your current pages.

There's more tricks (AJAX for smaller download sizes, one thing comes to mind) but you can learn it on the go.